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COMBINED RAILWAY JOINT AND CHAIR.

Eatented Nov. 25, 1884.

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IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII v llllfia iimmlllllll ATENT' F F ICEQ LEVI HAAS, OF CHESTER, PENNSYLVANIA.

COMBINED RAILWAY JOINT AND CHAIR.

SP ECIPICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 308,491, dated November 25, 1884:.

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To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LEVI HAAS, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Chester,in the countyofDelaware and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Combined Railway Joint and Olltlll,0f which the following is aspecification,reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

This invention has reference to improvements in railways, pertaining more especially to the splicingbars, fislrplates, and chairs; and it consists of the detailed construction and combination of parts, substantially as hereinafter fully set forth, and pointed out jn the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a plan view of my invention. Fig. 2 isa similar view with the splicing rail or bar removed. Fig. 3 is an end elevation of the splicing bar or rail and connected fish-plates. Fig. 4 is a longitudinal sectional view, and Figs. 5 and 6 are detail views of my invention.

In the construction of mycombined railway joint and chair the chair A is provided on each longitudinal face with a corresponding boltrecess, a, and each corner is formed into a flange-clamp, b, which flange-clamps conjointly receive the flanges of two rails, B and B, whose ends are brought into contiguity to be spliced together, the rails resting upon the chairs or bottom plates. The flange-clamps I) are cast integral with the chairs or bottom plates,and project vertically upward and then at a slight inclination inwardly over the flanges of the rails to which they are conformed. The flanges and webs E of the adjacent rail-ends are projected beyond the head portions of the rails, the projected web portions being therefore without the headed portions forming the tread or bearingsurface of the rail.

D is the splicing rail or bar, whose headed portion is oppositely shaped or curved at its ends to the curvature of the ends of the heads of the rail-sections, to enable them to fit into the latter. The splicing rail or bar consists of the coincident fish-plates E, terminating at top in the rail D, and having between them the longitudinal recess E,wherein is centrally bolted, or it may be cast integral therewith, the flange and web E, which serves as an adjunct in strengthening and supporting the splicing-rail, the tread of which rests on flange and web E and on the vertical walls of the fishplates. The combined flange and web E and the webs E conjointly occupy the longitudinal recess E,as shown in Fig. 4. The flanges Eof the fish-plates E are inclined downwardly parallel with the web of the combined web and flange E and after passing its longitudinal edge they project vertically down and rest upon the bottom plate, A. The flanges E ar e provided with bolt-recesses a, adapted to the coincident bolt-recesses a of the chair A. The fish-plates project beyond each end of the splicing rail or bar D, to enable them to embrace the webs of the rail-sections, to which they are fastened or connected. by a stapleshaped bolt, F, with its ends passing through coinciding apertures in the rail-section webs and the fish-plates. The ends of bolt F are projected through orifices provided at either end of plate E and the plate is secured by the nuts F, as shown. In this connection I would state that I am aware of German Patent N 0. 19,379, of 1882, wherein is employed a splicing bar or rail for forming a rail-joint curved at either end, the curves being adapted to coincident curves formed at either end of each rail-section; but said patent does not otherwise resemble my invention.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a combined railway joint and chair, the splicing bar or rail D, having the connected fish-plates, in combination with the flange and web E, and the rail-sections B, having the headless web extensions and flanges E substantially as shown, and for the purpose described. 7

2. The splicing bar or rail having the fixed fish-plates projecting beyond said bar or rail, in combination with the rail-sections having headless web extensions and flanges, and the bottom plate or chair with flange-clamps at its corners, substantially as shown and described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

. LEVI HAAS.

WVitnesses:

P. BRADLEY, S. S. OoRNocc. 

